Prince Phillip

lavenderzen I agree with you. I lay abed last night actually thinking about leaving GN, - and I joined within months of the networkks launch - because it has got so nasty in recent months. I thought it would ease off after the election, but it hasn't and the nastiness has spread to threads like this, which has been unpleasant,to poisonous, and I am not particularly a royalist.

The worst thing is that I am aware that I too am in danger of becoming less pleasant myself in response to others declining standards.

We don't forget how wonderful it is. Not at all.
No one has said that.

So sorry you have lost two dear friends Iam

I agree with your post .

This has turned out to be another one of those horrible threads.

Sorry for your loss Iam64.

I've skimmed through many posts but confess to not having RTT. I've seen many suggestions that because PP is a member of the RF he's getting treatment that wouldn't be available on the NHS.
I accept he'll be in private rooms, with his own treating team. A member of my family was admitted earlier this year, with a uti linked to prostate cancer. He sadly died 3 weeks later. In the period he was hospitalised, the level of care given was superb. The week he spent in ICU meant he had a named nurse who was with him constantly during the day, replaced by another named nurse overnight. His treating doctors met regularly with his family to discuss his care.
We have had two funerals in the past weeks. Both close friends who died after cancer treatment over several years. Again, the level of care was superb, the hospice involvement excellent and the carers, district nurses and GP's involved with end of life care at home unquestionably good.
My loved one's were just ordinary folks, not members of the RF.

I sometimes think we forget just how good the NHS still is. Yes it's underfunded, needs support, needs its management structures reviewed, somehow we need to replace all the EU nurses and doctors who are 'going home because Brexit confirms you don't want/need us". Our GP's are one of the most stretched area of the NHS along with A and E, that's where most of us come face to face with the problems. We need to lobby our MP's and the Prime Minister to fund and protect as they promised they would. Making snide comments about the preferential treatment being given to a 98 year old man who has served out country for so long does seem unpleasant.

I didn't know PP had prostate cancer. I thought they were keeping quiet about what's wrong with him.

But I agree some comments are uncalled for.

Being anti monarchy is not tosh. Thats your opinion Maw. And it doesn't mean one is unsympathetic.
I have sympathy for PP but not more than for anyone else.

Nobody has said they do Granny

Don't be so ridiculous

So what should I be ashamed of exactly? My gay son perhaps?

Yes GrsnnyGravy and I meant no offence to those who attended boarding school, it’s just so wrong to say a person was gay because someone at school with him said so.

And I am not anti gay just anti gossip

Not every boarding schoolboy has “a gay episode”, my brother definitely did not!!!

Who exactly should be ashamed and for what please?

An old man is in hospital and, whatever you may think of the royal family, this thread is disgraceful.

Gransnetters should be ashamed.

The worst of Gransnet is evident on this thread.

I didn’t make any mention of buggery It was you who mentioned buggery and abuse Annie

No, something that was known amongst his school friends Annie. It was the early eighties though, not the fifties or sixties when people were locked up. I’m not sure why it’s causing so much upset, he was known to be gay at school amongst his peers - so what?

According to SirChen there was, someone told him/her

DH went to Gordonstoun, not your typical “English” public school and no buggery.

Not an urban myth , just gossip

Not an urban myth Maw but as I said, I have no issue if someone chooses not to believe me, it’s of no consequence to me one way or another.

Yes GrannyGravy his mother was at his wedding , she ended her days in Buck House, was buried in St George’s Chapel but later her body was exhumed and she is buried in
Jerusalem. She was honoured as ‘Righteous Among Nations’

A remarkable life.

I am afraid I have never read such a load of irrelevant anti-Royalist tosh as on this thread.
Where would you begin to debunk the urban myths? Tge Gordonstoun one might be a start.
I wouldn’t actually bother but agree with GG - here is a 98 year old man who has supported our Queen throughout her time as Queen which effectively deprived him of his career, had to give up his surname so that his children bore her name and now a husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather with prostate cancer is virtually unable to escape the public eye or prurient observations of people who know little but say much.
Cut the man some slack, please!

I believe it is possible to leave a dysfunctional family and reflect,admit problems, have the guts to find a therapist and move on. Not for the faint hearted.

Anniebach he did have a disfunctional family, I may be wrong but wasn't he reconciled with his Mother in her later years.